A time of 11 years, two months isn't much to brag about if you're running the Boston Marathon. It's pretty good if you're on Mars. NASA's "Opportunity" rover has finally traveled 26.2 miles from its landing site — the length of a standard marathon race — across the surface of Mars.
A pair of sisters spent years learning their craft that turns pumpkins, squash and other gourds into $800 works of art.
Thousands of teens from around the US gathered in Detroit, painting houses, hauling trash and mowing lawns, to help clean up the city's poorest neighborhoods.
Don't be alarmed by the hitchhiking robot—it's relying on the kindness of strangers to help him cross the U.S. from Massachusetts to California this summer.
A Japanese village has created giant images from Star Wars using different colored rice plants growing in a paddy.
While renovating an Oklahoma City school, construction workers uncovered chalkboards covered in sketches and lessons from nearly one hundred years ago.
A tiny baby otter, lost and alone, was rescued and is being taught how to eat, how to groom and swim by humans. How to be adorable, however, comes naturally.
A stranger read about an ex-offender unable to cope with a cycle of court costs that kept sending him back to jail. So he wanted to give the man a new start.
Britain's Prince Harry is spending the summer helping protect endangered rhinos and elephants against poachers.
A Dublin teenager's trip to the store turned into a lifesaving encounter, and the man was so grateful, he named his baby after the young man.
The last of 171,000 known landmines in Mozambique has been destroyed, making it the first country cleared of the explosive traps.
A picture of a little girl hugging her rescuer came to symbolize the hope amid Hurricane Katrina's destruction ten years ago— watch their emotional reunion.